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🤠 Spurs survive Knicks, MSG
😵💫 A CFB breaking point?
🏆 USMNT’s pressure
Games like last night’s thriller trigger one of my favorite debates, which focuses on young teams playing in big moments: Are these players just impervious to pressure? Built different? Or are they too inexperienced to even understand the full stakes of what’s going on?
It doesn’t matter, really, when the…